I ask this
because some Republicans attending the state GOP convention have offered a
resolution to be voted on by delegates today supporting the "right
of the state" to secede from the union.

So I won't
be accused of hyping this, I saw that the resolution is not expected to pass
and in fact the vast majority of the GOP dominated Legislature sent a letter to
the convention Friday urging delegates to vote no on the resolution.

But that
there is an effort to even pass such a resolution says something. And probably
what it says is that crazy exists everywhere.

For the
record, a few members of the Alabama Legislature and some Republicans across
the state are fans of nullification 2.0 as well.

Wisconsin,
take it from those of us in Alabama, this secessionist thing has no future. Our
ancestors in Dixie learned that the hard way 150 years ago in a little war some
down here still refer to as the War of Northern Aggression. You may know it as
the Civil War.

You should
read about it. Your cheesehead ancestors participated in that war. It was a
horrible, bloody thing and among its many casualties was the contention that
states have the "right to secede" from the union.

Also, you
might want to remember that your party basically got its start opposing this
kind of thing and was led in its founding years by Abraham Lincoln who led the
fight to keep the union intact and, oh by the way, saw his life taken by a rabid
secessionist.